In this activity, students get to research and write a news article about a viral disease outbreak. The assignment could be cross-curricular with English Language Arts and Social Studies.

Subject

Cross-Curricular

English Language Arts

Science

Biology

Social Studies

Revised Curriculum

Keywords

virus

newspaper

micro-organism

BCScTA

classification

epidemic

pandemic

Learning Standards

BC Science 8 (2016)
The relationship of micro-organisms with living things: impacts of epidemics and pandemics on human populations
BC Biology 11 (2006)
E1 evaluate the evidence used to classify viruses as living or non-living
E2 evaluate the effects of viruses on human health

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